Back in 1995 - A Tantalising Glimpse

1995 – it could feel like yesterday for some or perhaps a lifetime ago.  Having grown up in the 90s, a lot has changed over the past 21 years.  Its quite hard to grapple over the fact that the times can change so much!  With fragmented memories of 1995, it was the year the Internet actually gained public attention.

It was the year of dial up modems and giant monitors and of course, the inevitable ‘vomit-noise’ that signalled the establishment a successful connection to the ‘World Wide Web’!

Bill Clinton was the president of America at this point of time and Kocheril Raman Narayanan was the Vice President of India with Shankar Dayal Sharma as the President of India. The Prime Minister of India at that time was P.V.Narasimha Rao

 Microsoft released Windows 95 and JavaScript was introduced and deployed for the first time. EBay, started as a shopping and online auction website where people were able to buy as well as sell goods and services globally.

The DVD (digital video disc/digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc storage format that was invented and developed by Philips and Sony in 1995.

It was a device, which could store any kind of digital data and is widely used for software and other computer files as well as video program were watched using DVD players. 

DVDs offer higher storage capacity than compact discs, while having the same dimensions.

 What was TV LIKE?

There were very few but popular sitcoms during the 90s and some of them were Saved by the Bell, Full House, X-files and Twin Peaks. Broadcast television in the 90s and especially in 95’ was like the Netflix of today! 

Seinfeld was the most popular sitcom, which almost everyone followed and included in their social conversations. In fact, the last episode of Full House had aired after eight seasons! 

The Soup Nazi, which is the 116^th episode of Seinfeld and with it came the catchphrase ‘No Soup for you’ – applicable for so many of life’s disappointments.

The former football star O.J. Simpson was acquitted for the brutal 1994 double murder of his estranged wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman on October 3^rd, 1995.  

Pagers, No Smartphones – but pagers!

These were also known as beepers and were used to message and display alphanumerical messages and/or even announce voice messages. A number would appear on the LCD screen, which would indicate, to you who would be trying to contact you, so that you could be able to call them back.

This was all in America, but what about India?

It was the year the Shiv Sena came to power and Bombay became ‘Mumbai’.

Aditya Chopra’s directorial debut, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (DDLJ) was released and it became the longest running Hindi movie.

It was the year India joined the World Trade Organisation and had replaced GATT (General Agreement on Tariff and Trade)

It was also the year when there were reports of the Hindu milk miracle, which surfaced, and the story picked up getting covered by the news services around the world such as the New York Times, the Guardian, CNN and the BBC.

 The period of 1995 was a confusing and terrifying time in many ways and there lies many secrets that yet remain uncovered to illuminate the secrets of the mysterious and ‘ancient’ period of the late 90s; but do you think you can look back at your life and travel back in time?             

In 1995Amazon went online & today it's founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world!